Canarian Weekly
15-03-2013, 13:00
The Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has launched a service for collecting used vegetable oils, by installing 120 special containers, which are being installed in the five districts of the municipality.
The city’s mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, held a ceremony in the district-La Salle Health to present the new collection points.
Bermudez said that the new collection points add to the recycling activity already taking place with recycling systems for used clothing and footwear, electronics, paper, glass, cans and organic waste.
“This new service, facilitates comfortably the disposal of highly polluting waste, with the consequent impact on environmental care”, Bermudez added, “used oil should be put in cans or plastic bottles with lids.”
Each container has a capacity of 240 litres. The addition to the recycling services continue to make the capital as sustainable a city as possible.
Another aim is to expand the service to catering establishments, schools and neighbourhood associations, among others.
The oil will be transferred to a treatment plant authorised for processing it into bio diesel. The City Council estimate collection of 67,000 litres of waste oil per year.
Currently in Spain, two in three litres of cooking oil is flushed down the sink and contaminates some 1,000 litres of water
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The city’s mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, held a ceremony in the district-La Salle Health to present the new collection points.
Bermudez said that the new collection points add to the recycling activity already taking place with recycling systems for used clothing and footwear, electronics, paper, glass, cans and organic waste.
“This new service, facilitates comfortably the disposal of highly polluting waste, with the consequent impact on environmental care”, Bermudez added, “used oil should be put in cans or plastic bottles with lids.”
Each container has a capacity of 240 litres. The addition to the recycling services continue to make the capital as sustainable a city as possible.
Another aim is to expand the service to catering establishments, schools and neighbourhood associations, among others.
The oil will be transferred to a treatment plant authorised for processing it into bio diesel. The City Council estimate collection of 67,000 litres of waste oil per year.
Currently in Spain, two in three litres of cooking oil is flushed down the sink and contaminates some 1,000 litres of water
More... (http://www.canarianweekly.com/veg-oil-collection/)